I have a small home network, and I'd like to share home and mail
directories so that a user logging in on any machine in the network sees
the /home/<userid> directory from his/her own machine and
/var/spool/mail/<userid> from a common server. I think I have the basics,
but I'd like to make sure I've got it right before I break something I
care about. I'd like not to use NIS at the moment, though I may get into
that later. There aren't so many machines or users that I feel the need
for it at this point.
For a home directory, I know that the machine it lives on must export it
in /etc/exports:
/home/joeuser 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync)
To get it mounted when the user logs into any machine, I would have that
user's entry in /etc/passwd be:
joeuser:x:500:500:Joe User:<something>:/bin/bash
but what about <something> reflects the fact that the directory is to be
mounted from the remote machine on login? Or am I off base here?
For the mail files, I have the server export /var/spool/mail as:
/var/spool/mail 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync)
and I mount it with the entry in /etc/fstab
server:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs \
auto,hard,intr,rw 0 0
This seems straightforward except for one thing: root's mail file is now
network-mounted so all mail to root on any machine will go to the same
mail file. Thus (1) I won't be able to tell which machine generated
the mail, and (2) since I'm not NFS mounting /root, when I read that mail,
the mbox file it ends up in will depend on which machine I'm logged into.
Is there a way around that difficulty?
TIA.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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